Compile Python 3 interpreter to force 2-byte unicode

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 11/25/2017 5:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:05 AM,  <wojtek.mula at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally
>>> uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 65535:
>>>
>>>    import sys
>>>    print sys.maxunicode
>>>
>>> This is enabled in Windows, but I want the same in Linux.
>>> What options have I pass to the configure script?
>
>
> You must be trying to compile 2.7.  There may be Linux distributions that
> compile this way.  If you want to use, or ever encounter, non-BMP chars,
> using surrogate pairs is problematical.  By my reading of the official UCS-2
> docs, Python's old 16-bit unicode implementation is not fully compliant.
> Others have claimed that is it not a UCS-2 implementation.

See subject line. OP wishes to compile Python 3 (and almost certainly
not 3.1 or 3.2) with the bugginess of Python 2's narrow builds.

ChrisA